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Orange County detectives still are investigating the suspicious death of a man found in the shrubs of an apartment complex near Orange Blossom Trail. Landscapers found the body Monday afternoon while working at the Waterview Apartments, said Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Jane Watrel. No other details have been released. This is a developing story.

CLERMONT — Five people were detained and one person may be injured in a shooting in Four Corners this afternoon, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office. Reports of shorts were fired at about 1:30 p.m. near the Sunoco gas station at 940 U.S. Highway 27. Detectives believe the altercation could be drug related, according to an email from sheriff's Sgt. Jim Vachon. "The individuals in both cars were familiar with one another and at some point gunfire was exchanged," Vachon said.

Doris Douglas told Volusia County detectives her husband called Sunday night and said she better return home and get their 36-year-old son "before I kill him. " Moments later, she heard a "pop, pop, pop" on the telephone line, according to Sheriff's Office reports released Monday. And then, she heard her son scream in the background, "I can't believe you shot me in the chest. " Douglas returned to her DeLand home and found her son, Willie Patterson, in the driveway with several gunshot wounds, reports said.

An Orlando man was arrested today - a day after he was accused of attacking a homeowner in Martin County. Michael Jacob McGarry, also known as Jake McGarry, on Monday broke into a home in the 4000 block of 42nd Avenue in Palm City in a neighborhood where his mom lives. He was arrested after deputies got a tip he was at a residence on Conch Cove Lane in Martin County. Detectives obtained warrants for McGarry charging him with burglary and aggravated battery. He was taken into custody and is at the Martin County jail.

Three men arrested Monday while trying to break into a $3 million southwest Orange County house have been linked to the recent home invasion of a lakefront Windermere residence owned by a well-known thrill-ride inventor. Detectives on Friday served arrest warrants on Johnathan Contreras, Andres Perez and Frank Bower at the Orange County Jail, where they are being held until they can prove money that would be used to post their bail was legally earned. Contreras, 27, and Perez, 45, are from Collier County, where detectives are also investigating five home invasions at affluent properties.

A Kissimmee man was arrested Thursday on five child pornography charges, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said. Detectives began investigating Joshua Anthony Gomez, 26, in April, when his computer's IP address was linked to child pornography, the Sheriff's Office said. Investigators searched Gomez's Aurora Lane home on Thursday. Based on evidence collected and Gomez's statements, detectives arrested him. The investigation is ongoing and additional charges are pending, the Sheriff's Office said.

John DeJesus claimed masked robbers had raided his home and shot his girlfriend, but as he sat in a patrol car while authorities worked the crime scene, he made a statement that left a nearby deputy "puzzled," an affidavit states. "I'm going back to prison for this," he said, according to the court document. With that comment, his account began to unravel, records show, eventually leading deputies to find the murder weapon in a nearby pond and ultimately to his arrest on a murder charge in the death of Yoliz Marie DeJesus Borrero, 22. When the deputy looked at DeJesus after his prison comment, he hastily clarified it, deputies say: "I'm going back to prison when I kill the guys who did this.

A 25-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on charges of armed home-invasion robbery and murder in the death of a Seminole County man. Stephen Beglane and his wife were in their home on Fieldcrest Avenue in the Goldenrod neighborhood near Winter Park April 18 when she woke up and heard "a disturbance," the Sheriff's Office said. Sheriff's detectives say Carrington Ivory shot Stephen Beglane. 44, an acquaintance. Beglane died at Orlando Regional Medical Center. According to LinkedIn, Beglane owned an information-technology company that provided communications cables.

John Michael DeJesus' account was dramatic: Three armed men stormed his home, raided his safe and shot his girlfriend in her bed as her daughter slept beside her, before fleeing into the night. However, detectives soon began to doubt every element of his story, a court document shows. On Friday, the Orange County Sheriff's Office issued a statement naming DeJesus "the only suspect" in the death of his girlfriend, 22-year-old Yoliz Marie DeJesus Borrero. An arrest affidavit filed in circuit court shows what led detectives to suspect DeJesus, who deputies say is a confessed drug dealer and member of the Latin Kings gang.

A Taurus 9 mm handgun was stolen from the center console of a Gotha man's Ford Expedition in late January or early February. The gun's owner didn't notice until a federal agent later told him it had been involved in a crime. That crime: the slaying of Orange County sheriff's Deputy Jonathan Scott Pine, who was gunned down by fleeing vehicle-burglary suspect Benjamin Holtermann in the early morning Feb. 11, authorities said. Deputies found Holtermann lying in a pool of blood, dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot to the head.